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‖ Vertebrata Zool.|vɜːtɪˈbreɪtə|
[mod.L. (Cuvier), a. L. vertebrāta (sc. animālia), neut. pl. of vertebrātus vertebrate a.]
1. With the. A division of the animal kingdom including all animals which have a backbone or its equivalent.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xxviii. III. 44 The difference here between Insects and the Vertebrata seems very wide. 1834McMurtrie Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 232 The blood of the Mollusca..appears to contain a smaller proportionate quantity of fibrine than that of the Vertebrata. 1843Penny Cycl. XXVI. 277/2 In the Vertebrata the brain and principal trunk or chord of the nervous system is enclosed in a bony or gristly case composed of the skull and the vertebræ. 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. 49 Even the hiatus between the Vertebrata and the Invertebrata, is partly, if not wholly, bridged over.
2. (With lower-case initial.) A group or class of these; a number of vertebrate animals.
1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. iv. vii. 644 The geologist, without seeking to reanimate these extinct vertebrata, learns much regarding the past from..their colossal remains. 1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (1872) I. i. i. 4 Between the water-breathing vertebrata and..air-breathing vertebrata there is an equally conspicuous unlikeness in energy. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life 5 In every Mammalian skeleton..the vertebrae in the trunk always differ from those of the different lower vertebrata in..the following points. |